It has been on the cards for some time, but as the conflict between the Government and the labour inspectors continues to escalate, with all the unions unanimously rejecting as “insufficient” the last offer sent from the Ministry of Finance and Public Function to restructure the organism, from today, Monday, they begin an indefinite strike.
First, they began to gather before the provincial offices of the organisation, then they went to partial strikes, later all the provincial directors of the Inspection and team leaders signed a manifesto charging against the Government and the breach of its commitments. The last one was to paralyze any specific campaign to prosecute labour fraud, limiting itself to responding to complaints that workers make to the Inspectorate but minimising their activity outside the offices.
And from Monday the activity of the inspectors in the pursuit of fraud will drop further, since the entire body is called to stop. “Urgent solutions are required and for this reason the majority of the representation of the workers of the organisation calls an indefinite strike,” reads the statement released this Friday. The only union that does not participate in the protests is the State Union of Employment and Social Security Sub-inspectors (Seslaess), which limits its representation -and strong roots- among the sub-inspectors.
The demand of the convening centrals remains the same: that the Government approve a new list of jobs to provide a new organisational structure to the state body. In other words, a new organisation chart and more reinforcements, since the inspectors say they are overwhelmed given the new workloads that they have progressively assumed in recent years with the new regulations. From the supervision of equality plans, through the time registration or the ertes during the pandemic, which are added to the classic actions in the field of irregular economy or risk prevention.
According to data from the Ministry of Labour itself, inspection activity has increased by 355% during this legislature. Currently the Inspection staff is made up of a total of 2,051 officers, including inspectors and sub-inspectors. A body that must ensure the labour rights of the 20.8 million workers who are currently active. That is, they touch one inspector for more than 10,000 workers.
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